Daniel Robert ‘Bob’ Graham (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Sen. Graham is in his third term in the US Senate, and before that served two terms as Governor of Florida. He got an LLB from Harvard Law School, but does not…
Richard Andrew ‘Dick’ Gephardt (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Yep. Thirteen terms in the US House, and before that six years on the St. Louis city council. Led the Democrats for ten years or so (led them where is a separate…
John Reid Edwards (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Er, well, he’s really quite wealthy… OK, he’s a first-term US Senator with no political experience before that at all. He was a very successful trial lawyer, and made a bundle of money…
Howard Dean (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Dr. Dean is a Yalie, but we can’t hold that against him. Seriously, he is qualified in the traditional way, although on fast-forward. A quick rise through the State House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor,…
Carol Moseley Braun (Project Vote Smart) Background: She has quite an impressive background: a JD from UChi is no joke, a few years in a US Attorney’s office, a decade in Chicago’s Assembly (is this like learning politics on…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger is finally ready to start posting these notes about the candidates. I thought it would take a week, and it took a month. I’m hoping for lots of discussion, so I thought I’d lay out…
Your Humble Blogger has been terribly cranky over the last week or so. On principle, I try to write a puff piece for every hatchet job, but I expect it will run more like two to one on the bad…